Pineapple Acreage at Wahiawa Plans Boost World Supply
Wahiawa May 15 reports a massive pineapple plantation in the Caneon Islands area. The article notes 80 percent of production on about 000 acres, with four hundred acres owned by a company and the remainder by individuals. Planting runs April to November, fields arranged in four by eight foot rows, and crops yield highly during June to September. Production runs day and night in summer with canning output in the tens of thousands per day. Suckers propagate new plantings, valued at 15 to 200 thousand dollars, and each year two suckers are left on the original stalk. The piece details cultivation, harvesting, and costs per acre, with forecasts of up to seven to twelve tons per acre.
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Wahiawa
Wiwaii
Midat
Diewallin Pineappla
Ian Reddish
Thor
Urgetet
Tvelve
Cdaw Shiyian
Fizoil
Knoll Sues Trolley Company for $5000 in Newark Case
The suit by Allert I Knoll of Mountainside against North Jersey Street Railway was resumed after a previous trial where $1500 was awarded but later set aside on appeal. Knoll alleges injuries from a June 22 1907 accident on Springfest Avenue Newark when a trolley car struck his wagon, causing serious chest pain and a lung condition later claimed to be tuberculosis developments disputed by company doctors.
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Nuit
Allert i Knoll
Mountainside
North Jeisey Street Railway Company
Trotley Company
Supreme Court
Kool
Anl Teichman
Springfest Avenue
Newark
Kyall
Wrme
Poisoned Castor Bean Shrub Strikes City School
A Sunday school teacher in the city fell ill after thirty children consumed castor bean shrub fruit at a picnic. Several children are in danger of death as authorities investigate the poisoning incident and its cause.
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Minn Urgrad
Thin City
Misa Burgrott
Railroad Accident Bulletin for Week Briefing
Trenton May 13 The accident bulletin of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for New Jersey reports seven people killed and injured in various railroad accidents during the week ending May 21.
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Trenton
Board of Railroad Commission
New Jersey
Miss Shay Seriously Ill After Surgery
Mish Jessie Shay renowned pianist who toured with Stan Kubelik is reported dying condition at Presbyterian Hospital New York following an operation on May 5. She endured two weeks of convulsions and coma, with injuries thought to come from a shipboard accident returning from Mexico.
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Mish Jessie Shay
Stan Kubelik
An Pling Auluist
Presbyterian’ Hospital
New York
Red
Mexico
Fairbanks Headquarters Opened in Chicago Annex Hotel
Washington May 1. A further refutation of the story that Vice President Fairbanks had withdrawn from the Presidential race. His managers announce today that on Monday Fairbanks headquarters will be opened in the Annex Hotel at Chicago. Kealing, United States District Attorney, will be in charge.
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Washington
Fairbanks
Annex
Chicago
Doneph RB
Kealing
United Staten Diatelet Ator
New Wt
Indianapolin
A Dainty Marael In A Dinnertime Banter
A waiter offers lamb with green peas to a Wall Street operator who misreads the menu and asks for lamb with green bucks in a humorous exchange captured by the Philadelphia Press.
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Wall Street
Philadelphia Press
Doctor Must Testify In Court Says Physician Has No Privilege
In Trenton on May 15 Vice-Chancellor Leaming ruled a physician is not exempt from testifying about a patient’s dissipation. The decision held doctors have no greater privilege than other witnesses. The habeas corpus case involves George Carter of Bridgeton seeking custody of his daughter, with the court awarding custody to the mother.
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Trenton
Leaming Aw Ted
Court of Chancery
George Carter
Bridgeton
Kanab youth confesses to murder of sweetheart
Alvin Heaton, 14, confessed to shooting Mary Stevens after she pleaded for marriage in a canyon near Ordeville Utah. Heaton, schoolmates turned sweethearts two years prior, shot four times as she urged him to stay with her. Body hidden under rocks, found two days later. arrest followed after two weeks of questioning.
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Kanab
Utah
Chester
Alvin Heaton
Mary Stevens
Ordeville
Heaton
Piasterite
Outing Planned for Y M C A Boys
Arrangements completed for a YMCA boys department outing tomorrow. The trolley trip goes to Sailors' Sug Harbor to view rare curios and hear anecdotes from sailors, then to St George and Fort Wadsworth. Limited to fifteen. cost under forty cents.
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CUAL
Sug Harbor
Iantoric St. George
Fort Wadsworth
Deen
Cranford Horse Thief Caught in Roselle
Herbert Sims of Waverly was brought to Cranford and jailed to await Grand Jury action on an attempted horse stealing charge. The 42 year old left a Cranford farm with a horse valued at $75 last evening, prompting a police chase extending to Elizabeth before returning empty handed.
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Herbert Sims
Waverly
Gledon E. Ludlow
Cranford
Pass
Sims
Mr. Ludlow
Ludlow
Crawford Police
Elizabeth
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Captain Caught on First Avenue
Sims wan caught on First avenue Roselle with a horse in his possession. Constables Hennessey and Redruf of Cranford aided by Roselle marshal John Kenney captured him. The incident involves arrest and local police action in Cranford and Roselle.
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Sims Wan
First Avenue
Roselle
Hennessey and
Redruf
Cranford
John Kenney
Fragmentary Houston Post dialogue reprints news tone
A terse dialogue snippet from the Houston Post features a man reporting to a doctor and planning to return home to announce news to his wife after a two month period described as deaf to hearing. The brief exchange conveys shock and a sense of personal consequence.
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Lesa
Houston Post
Barn Destroyed in Cranford Fire Near Trestle
Crayford May 18 The local fire department answered a blaze near a wooden trestle housing Main Line trolley cars from the B and C tracks near Aldene. A barn about twenty feet from the trestle burned to the ground, with efforts aimed at saving the trolley company structures only partially successful as the trestle was scorched.
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Tournal
Crayford
Aldene
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W. H. Hicks & Son
St. Elizabeth
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